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   Justin 🌻 (onyxraven@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 00:08:47 JST Justin 🌻

   • Thomas 🔭🕹️

   @thomasfuchs I think we've been here since ~2012.

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     Cameron Watters (watters@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 00:09:41 JST Cameron Watters

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs I experienced it as an overly simplistic compression metaphor, so didn't initially experience it as "replace things people love with a soulless slab of magical sand" in the same way others did.

     But it is very weird that people are challenging the validity of the perspective of folks who hated it.

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     Dan Hulton (danhulton@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 00:58:06 JST Dan Hulton

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs The paint spurting viscerally like blood was so weirdly intensely off-putting.

     I feel like if it had been ACTUAL blood, it would have registered as more cartooney and less disturbing.

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     Steve Williams (blabberlicious@toot.community)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 02:04:55 JST Steve Williams

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     Did you read Gruber’s take?
     Hilarious.
     A real Swisher moment.

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     Steve Williams (blabberlicious@toot.community)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 02:16:21 JST Steve Williams

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs
     You are missing *such* insight:

     “When I first saw the ad during the keynote, I didn’t think twice about it. It didn’t strike me as particularly clever, but I didn’t suspect for even a second that it might prove even slighty controversial.”

     🤣

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     Robert Jan Schutten (rjschutten@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 03:04:08 JST Robert Jan Schutten

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Controversial opinion here from me? I didn’t really hate it that much myself, but I can understand that it rubbed people the wrong way. Especially in light of anxiety about AI replacing artistic human expression. But I do feel that there is a bit of an overreaction. It’s a tech company trying to sell their product. If you don’t like it don’t buy it. Not everything in the world has to be made controversial.

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     Robert Jan Schutten (rjschutten@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 11-May-2024 03:31:50 JST Robert Jan Schutten

     • Thomas 🔭🕹️

     @thomasfuchs Fair enough. Apple clearly misjudged the response to the ad, which is a problem if you’re trying to sell your products. But they also apologized, which is rare in today’s world of doubling down on your mistakes.